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[Focus General] tanneji:
I actually just got a cheap Samsung Focus. I still have my captivate and was in the same boat as you. I was just sick of looking for froyo etc. I found a deal on one and really really enjoy it. I love the games on it as they are more cohesive than Android. Also, it just works. There aren't as many apps etc but the freakin GPS works spot on and quickly. It takes a little adjustment coming from Android to WP7 but I am almost completely swapped over. I will be using my captivate more like an ipod touch for the foreseeable future. I don't like bing as much as google but that has been my biggest problem so far.
[Focus General] jamccart:
I did make that leap. I got tired of a couple specific issues with the Capitivate. The GPS was terrible and took forever to lock on. The Focus is almost instant. The email updates on the Capitivate was eratic and would most times not automatically update. The email on the Focus has been great compared to that.

tanneji hit it -- there are more apps on Android, but I'm not missing any (well, besides Angry Birds, for now). The rest of the OS for WP7 is much better for me than Android. I sold my old phone and am not looking back.
[Focus General] LS1Jabroni:
My 2 cents

Being a previous Captivate owner from Aug'10 through Dec'10, here is a short list of pros/cons after making the change to the Focus:

Pro's:

*Flash for camera, and camera has side button to press instead of touching screen.

Con's:

*Univeral Volume. On captivate you can specify Ringtone/Music/Notifications/Etc

*No High Quality mode when watch youTube via 3G network... so the quality is terrible... better make sure you have wifi hooked up.

*No personal ring tones

*SD card is permenantly attached to phone when installed. No removing and putting into laptop for quick click 'n dragging.

Both:

*Both phones have promised updates that will never arrive.

*Battery life was the same for each, just make sure you plug it in at work.

I personally liked both phones, but I'm thinking I would have been very pleased with the new 4G HTC Inspire. It comes loaded w/Froyo (Gingerbread promised, if it ever happens).
[Focus General] PaullikesWINMO:
Hey ... this is pretty interesting... I just bought a Captivate. I will say I do really like the Focus but the "update" is slow in coming. The captivate is nice phone and Android pretty much reminds me of iPhone with the individual icons on the screen. The set up is a bit more flexible (volume controls) and I do like the WIFI Hotspot feature of Android. The battery is aweful (same as Focus) but at least I can swap them out (same battery for both phones). iphone didn't allow easy battery swapping. :-)

I've only had my Captivate for a week. A good phone but not a great phone. Nothing terrible about it except battery usage.
[Focus General] excision:
Lol official 2.2 did come out for captivate
[Focus General] squarejp:
I have iPhone, Captivate, and Focus so I'm very objective.

As the operator said, Android is a disaster. Flashing new ROM in search of a better UI and feature has been annoying while iPhone just works perfectly for backup. The reason I went for Rooting and Updating Froyo and Cognition ROM and now back to Official UCKB7 Froyo ROM is because I just want Skype to work, able to use Titanium Backup to backup app data just like the iPhone.

WP7 still does not have backup feature to backup apps....... everything seems to be cloud base may be easy for normal people but it DOES NOT BACKUP MY APPS DATA nor APPS.... it's annoying when I want to upgrade the SD card to 32GB and figure I have to wipe everything away and re-download and reconfigure everything ... It's just makes me really really annoyed...

WP7's multitasking is weak so far... I'm still waiting for the WebOS task switching UI that Microsoft has promised to release soon. But I'm having buggy issues in WP7 like the screen being too sensitive sometimes, lacking VOIP and turn-by-turn GPS navigation app sucks.....

Damn I think I will go back to iPhone. **** Android's fragmentation!! The OS is not stable at all! Skype, Tango, and other apps always crash and slow. iPhone just works smoothly, same thing as WP7.

WP7 still has a lot to catch up.
[Focus General] foxbat121:
I have both.

Captivate:

* Google's vast collection of cloud services, Google Maps, Google Navigation, Places, Translate, Google Voice and SkyMaps etc. All of them are severly lacking on WP7 side.

* Poor GPS

* Easily hackable to have wi-fi tethering and custom ROMs.

* No matter what I do, the phone is always sluggish on home screens.

* UI reminds me of old WM. Lack of innovations. The Android OS is basically a nature evolution of WM OS in many aspects.

* OS Updates are slow to come. Samsung is notorious for this.

* microSD card works

Focus:

* Very nice UI.

* Very fluid home screen

* Never used GPS (no useful Navigation apps) so can't say how much better it is (anything is better than Captivate's GPS).

* No easy tethering. No, I don't want dial-up modem type of tethering. I want wi-fi AP type of tethering or at least USB tethering without install or configure anything on the PC side.

* MS cloud services are very lacking.

* API is limited so useful apps are lacking.

* MS in charge of OS updates, not Samsung. Regardless of recent issues with update (which is still caused by Samsung), I'd expect phone Updates should be faster and better than Samsung ever can be.

* microSD doesn't work with majority of the card out there. So the storage capacity of the phone is lacking (8GB vs (16GB + microSD) on Captivate).

* WP7 is an OS heading the right direction.
[Focus General] PaullikesWINMO:
Oh... -1 for Android. I just found out it doesn't play .WAV files ? (2.2) Off I go to find a fix. This is a total blunder on Googles part. I mean .WAV files are very common with voice mail to email messages. Sigh..... off I go...
[Focus General] foxbat121:
It plays wav file just fine for me. It does not recognize it as music file hence won't show up in music library but if you use file explorer to open it, it will play without any problem.
[Focus General] PaullikesWINMO:
How do you file explorer on an attachment in an email ?
[Focus General] Landmine:
I have a Captivate, Focus and an iPhone. I'd rank them Focus, Captivate, iPhone.

Focus

- More Stable

- Awesome UI

- Netflix

- Turns on in less than 7 minutes

- GPS Works

- Updates come from MS and not Samsung

- Xbox Live

Captivate

- Google Voice

- Multitask

- Been using Android for the last year, so it's what I'm used to

iPhone

- Visual Voicemail

- Pretty UI

So blah blah blah, what everyone else has already said. The Focus is awesome, but the Captivate has it's pros too.
[Focus General] 66stang351:
App Realtube allows high quality over 3g.
[Focus General] foxbat121:
From what I was told (I don't have iPhone), Android's Google Voice voicemail imlementation (ability to transcribe voice into text) is way better than Visual Voicemail on iPhone.
[Focus General] tanneji:
Google Voice mail is awesome. I love it more than iPhone visual voicemail. It is practically the same thing however it also emails you the message and a transcription. The transcription is not that great but it will be quite awesome when they are able to understand accents a little better haha.
[Focus General] stillriza:
I used to have an HTC magic & captivate (used them for 2 years) but currently have the Iphone and use the Focus as my main phone.

Android had some very exciting features. I used to love being able to download a music album, then unzip it on the phone and play it right there and then. Having a file explorer was also amazing. Fragmentation between user experience varying from device to device is what killed it for me for the android platform..as well as the whole update limited by the carier fiasco.

WP7 in it's early stage is a better OS imo than Android was. It's IOS smooth and fluid and in the time I've used it, i've yet to have stability issues with the OS. With my Android phones, restarting the device was common to recover from force closes and lock ups.

I like the fact MSFT is taking the Apple route in the sense of 1 update for all. And I do think they will support their phones for a while to come, the way Apple till this day pushes out updates even for older hardware..3G/GS(albiet the real old stuff is no longer supported). Zune is the only thing I think is lagging with WP7. Itunes has alot more polish than Zune..but since Wp7 & zune are still relatively young.. i think they will still get there. More udpates, more APIs, more fun!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dpwhitty11:
Title says it all, where are sounds saved when you use the sound recorder in CM7?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00s3y:
I think they are saved right to the root of the SD Card, just made a recording and thats where it showed up.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dpwhitty11:
Alright thanks.

I took a 30 minute recording, so I think its just taking a long time to show up when I browse for it from my phone.
[Desire HD General] mrjonnyrock:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2029394/htc-desire-incredible-phones-gingerbread-updates
[Desire HD General] wid0w:
Sigh, wanted 2.4 :)
[Desire HD General] AndroHero:
We are getting what was 2.4, google decided to call it 2.3.3. I assume because they want to make 2.4 ice cream :)
[Desire HD General] darkreize:
Either way updates are good. :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] dark_prince:
So, I heard other phones have this option in recovery but what about kaiser?

Do we have thing like such? (I chose recovery in install menu, and it returns back to Install menu)

From past two days I am seeing that my phone sticks to 88% charging (even I remained plugged in for 10 hours) and drops the level from there. Tell me how can I recalibrate my batter? its standard 1350mAH and just to let you guyz know that I am having same good battery backup as it was before i-e 48+ hours.

Thank you!

I asked this question since search didnt give me quiet good response regarding Kaiser
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] MaRekRM:
You can try turn off phone and remove battery for a while. In first boot kernel should recalibrate battery level
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] dark_prince:
doesn't help I think :|
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] FlanFlinger:
The old method on the Galaxy S was to let it drain fully, recharge to full then go into terminal emulator and type

su

rm /data/system/batterystats.bin

then reboot straight away
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] mrlinconnu:
I found this...

Maybe helpful...

Edit : Take also a look to the link at the bottom..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] n2rjt:
I don't think you need a recalibration.

Charge overnight, then use "adb shell" and type:

echo 100 > /sys/module/board_kaiser_battery/parameters/set_percentage
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] dark_prince:
Doesn't help :| I tried like 6-7 times and still my phone is stuck at 84% and not charging anymore

I had to install drivers for adb all again, the HTC Dream Composite Device ones. ADB didnt connect :/ I was so frustrated, I flashed back to WM. Atleast no crashes till yet and battery is charging/draining as it should. Though I will miss finger-griendliness till some time. Maybe on my next fly to android I might start doing gingerbread.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sleepy_t:
Hi everyone,

I am experiencing some problems with Shoutcast streaming on the Samsung Galaxy S i9000, because of the Galaxy S MediaPlayer's PVPlayer component.

Now I would like to test this in the emulator, but the emulator doesn't make use this PVPlayer component.

I have already found some posts about using another system.img in the emulator to emulate other roms and devices. But the problem is: I don't own any Galaxy S, thus cannot create a system.img.

Could anyone point me to a location where I could get a Samsung system.img to test this? Or could someone who has a Galaxy S just create a nandroid system.img and offer it for download?

Thanks in advance,

Tobi
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juribus:
Hello everybody,

I've been searching for this on the internet, but I really can't find it. I've checked my settings as well, but...nothing. I guess this is one of the most n00bish questions ever.

My question: The standard backgrounds (non-live) are moving in the direction, you slide the menu. But, when I want to make my own background, it stays static and doesn't move with the menu.

The normal width selection looks like this:

View attachment 529655

But when I want to make a background it looks like this:

View attachment 529656

Help me please!

Thnx.

Btw: I have a custom ROM, Darky's v9.3 Beta 3
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Beta = unfinished for test purposes only etc etc etc

!100% not for newbies .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juribus:
But that wasn't my question, with all respect.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
And what i am suggesting is that its the rom making the problem and you would need to ask the rom developer or report it as a bug or even search the developers pages for the problem .

Or hang around for another suggestion .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juribus:
Ok, thnx. I will do that. So it's not a regular problem in your opinion?

I might be a Galaxy I9000 n00b, but I'm not some idiot. When I mess something up on the phone, I know how to get it right again. I'm familiare with computers and most OS...so I'm ready to take that risk.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadoslayer:
Just grab the corner of that yellow box and drag it diagonally so it fills the screen...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juribus:
Haha, that was the first thing I tried! ;) Doesn't work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadoslayer:
post the actual background file so I can take a look at it. I've done tons of my own wallpapers on darky's rom (and I'm running beta 3 too) and never had a problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juribus:
I would like to do that, but because I'm new I can't upload photos again...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artojeda1988:
how many roms is there for the my touch 4g? and i like some of the team whiskey roms on here for my touch 4g?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neidlinger:
Check out the Resource Bible it'll show all the different ROMs for this phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=866175
[Captivate General] deb410s:
I upgraded yesterday and seem to have several issues I would love help on.

1. Lost my purchased ringtones

2. Lost my Beautiful Widgets (Problem loading widgets) on screen..I cleared the data and uninstalled and reinstalled and rebooted, still gone.

3. When I press the button left of the home button, Google search comes on instead of Settings ect.

How do I fix these problems?

Thanks,

Deb
[Captivate General] MarcianoS:
Beautiful Widgets

Not sure about #1 and #3, but #2 is easy to fix: just remove Beautiful Widgets from your home screen, then add it back. This worked for me (using Launcher Pro)
[Captivate General] Dani897:
are you long pressing the menu button? sometimes when the phone gets laggy it doesnt come up so people have a tendancy to hold the button longer then the long press function comes up which is search by default.

all purchased maket apps can be re downloaded once you log into the market account. trust me they are there and can be replaced free of charge. just go into market and click my apps. as for beautiful widgets, uninstall, then reinstall. uninstalling from the market will not remove your privlage to reinstall, if you are within the refund period it will ask you if you want a refund, if you say no you can redownload it as many times as you like.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
EDIT: I have withdrawn any help I offered due to the OP sending me a whiny, insulting PM.
[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom Software Upgrading] andri_sindirie:
all......!!! hhelp me..

where i can to found xda atom black ROM like

youtube.com/watch?v=6xTSevNl-Ao

???????
[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom Software Upgrading] Hakim Rahman:
you can get it at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=619042
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] undercoverzafar:
hey friendz...i was installing darky's rom 9.2....i had downloaded the rom{whole package}....then i transfered the rom and pit and tar file and odin to the desktop,,,,now after i started odin and selected the pit and tar file and clicked on re_partition...and pressed start...now odin on the bottom left says <id:0/004> setupconnection.. it is stuck on this and the phone is stuck on download mode...

friendz what do i do?????plzz help me
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Reboot computer reboot phone try again that fails get a different rom .

jje
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadhoard:
When I connect my phone to my computer with the USB cable, and mount it, the drives do not show up on my computer. Everything looks correct on the phone. I want to get everything off of the phone. What can be done to fix this??

I have tried uninstalling/re-installing the drivers, rebooting my phone, checking/un-checking debugging, and nothing works. Without fixing this, I can not even Odin back to stock or flash a new ROM.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bartek25:
flash different kernel ! or go to dev section and find sd card fix .

sd not showing up on your computer is kernels fault which one you are on some of them are buggy and wont display sd card in computer tab .

pull your external memmory out of the phone put it in the SD SLOT IN YOUR COMPUTER copy rom of your choice ! eject the sd out of your computer put it back in the phone wualllla
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadhoard:
Yes, I did that. Like I said, the phone is acting like it is supposed to, but I can not access either the internal nor external SD card through explorer.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cconwing:
You might want to try replacing the connector cable. I had the same problem with my epic and that fixed it :)

Good luck
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bartek25:
clock work recovery , clear cache clean dalivk chace , fix permision , /factory reset should be done last . (it wipes everything) back up .
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadhoard:
I am running a custom ROM. What do you mean by "Fix permission" & "factory reset"? Will doing a factory reset take me back to stock?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insomaniac10:
i tell this to everyone who has this problem: start simple. the first thing you should do in this case is reinstall you drivers. i know it sounds silly, but i have frequent mounting issues that are always resolved by simply running the SamsungDrivers.exe and reinstalling them. it refreshes the driver.

not saying its going to work everytime, but its quite possible. ive suggested this to many people in the past and it worked for them.....give it a shot.

bartek was kind enough to repeat what i said in the next post:p:p
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bartek25:
yes factory reset will leave you on the rom you are on right now just all from scratch all your programs will be wiped and also all unecesary files that might prevent your computer from finding your sd but REINSTALL THE DRIVERS FIRST SEE HOW THAT GOES as sometimes simple things like that are the problem .
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadhoard:
I wiped everything and it fixed my issue. I still do not know were to "Fix permission", but at this point it works. Now when I unplug the USB, it still shows that the phone is still connected through the USB in the top left corner of the phone. Why is that?
[Captivate General] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Over the weekend I helped my daughter upgrade her Captivate to the official Froyo 2.2. We did this via Skype, being she is 1000 miles away.

using kies mini All went swimmingly;) (firmware shows Froyo 2.2) until today:eek: when she was walking around campus, she realized she no longer has wifi. She never had wifi in her dorm, but had it pretty much anywhere else on campus. So she was unaware of this til today. I had her turn off wifi, both in the tray and in settings>Accounts and sync, then turn them on again. Still nothing

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
[Captivate General] bigbooty:
You sure she has network notification checked in wifi settings?
[Captivate General] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Just checked with her again, yes she does
[Captivate General] Machavity:
Have you tried having her power cycle it? Mine does some weird things with network sometimes. I've had 3G and wifi both go away until I power cycle it on occasion. IIRC, I had to power cycle twice after my upgrade to get it all working.
[Captivate General] TonyStark R.I.P.:
AAAawwwgg....yawn.......strech yea it's better this morning. I had here try multipul things. Went to bed late around 3am she calls me to tell me it's working:mad: I'm sleeping here! College:rolleyes: back in the day, nothing better to do with time then live in the moment:cool:

Alls well that ends well
[GT540 Optimus General] underdog2k9:
Is there any chance to calibrate the touchscreen in 2.3?
[GT540 Optimus General] xander21:
Program is needed. What? I do not know
[GT540 Optimus General] underdog2k9:
in 1.6 and 2.1 there was a screen calibration tool, in 2.2 and 2.3 there was none. You could add a apk in 2.2 to calibrate it, but this program doesn't work in 2.3.
[GT540 Optimus General] Dr.Alani:
How come some people need to calibrate and some don't?

I did not need to calibrate when i had 2.3.2
[GT540 Optimus General] SrkeeOSK:
i need to, i mistype annoyingly often since 2.3.2
[GT540 Optimus General] 340865669:
I need one too:(
[GT540 Optimus General] WPNJ:
Here, you can find the HTC tool to calibrate the touchscreen in Android 2.3.

It's possible, that this tool works like "placebo".

P.S. Sorry, but my English isn't perfect.
[GT540 Optimus General] eoghan2t7:
thanks it runs on the optimus but is there any apps that can test the calibration before and after using touchscreen calibration apps?
[GT540 Optimus General] WPNJ:
Unfortunately no. Maybe this app works like placebo. After calibration you can feel an improvement, but really this app doesn't work.
[GT540 Optimus General] gizmo001i:
Have you tried Touch Calibration. You can get it in the app store.
[GT540 Optimus General] gizmo001i:
Sorry forgot to mention that it checks the calibration before saving.
[GT540 Optimus General] lukemovement1:
I think the stock LG one work from 2.1
[GT540 Optimus General] ShMaunder:
I'm not a developer, but i guess the original LG touch input driver isn't the same one used as that in CM. I too have been looking for answers but not able to find any.

I did post a youtube video on this called CM6.1.2 on GT540 Screen Calibration Problems (can't post links as i'm a new member). That used the LG screen calibration APK that fishears posted and although not on the video, the data\nv directory created with permissions set to full write (chmod 777) :(
[GT540 Optimus General] ShMaunder:
Can people still on LG Rom post their /data/nv/ts_cal contents to see how different other peoples touch screen offsets are.

Mine is

63935,8,58338,30,65536
[GT540 Optimus General] nibras_reeza:
Yes!

There must be quite a few.

Try this https://market.android.com/details?id=multitouchpro.tests&feature=search_result or this https://market.android.com/details?id=de.greenrobot.multitouchtest&feature=search_result
[GT540 Optimus General] mirvashstorm:
Calibration is way off especially on texting
[GT540 Optimus General] gizmo001i:
As I said earlier Touch Calibration allows you to calibrate your screen and it also checks the calibration afterwards for you. It's one that I use and it works for me.
[GT540 Optimus General] smg72523889:
Read this Thread, Screen Calibration 4 LG:

ht*p://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1033393&highlight=calibration

I tried and it works well on joes AOSP 2.3.2